# Phillip Shim

> Senior Frontend Engineer · Ex-Confluent, Amazon

Location: Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/phillipshim

Senior Frontend Engineer · Ex-Amazon & Confluent

https://phillipshim.dev/

## Work Experience
### Senior Frontend Engineer @ Confluent
Jan 2022 – Present | Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
• Architected Confluent's marketing design system — 20+ accessible React components across a multi-site monorepo — reducing UI inconsistencies and cutting feature delivery time by ~20%
• Owned site performance architecture — vendor chunking, code splitting, tree shaking, modern image formats, lazy loading, and preconnect strategies — improving Core Web Vitals by 25–30%
• Spearheaded Contentful CMS end-to-end — standardizing content models and reducing time-to-publish by 30%; built scalable SEO infrastructure increasing index coverage across 50K+ monthly sessions
• Engineered a multi-environment CI/CD pipeline with Semaphore and Netlify — branch-based preview deployments and automated internationalization (i18n) routing across 6 locales, reducing deployment time from hours to minutes
• Leveraged multi-agent AI systems for automated PR reviews, test generation, Contentful migrations, and
tech debt resolution — operating at 2–3× individual output while maintaining code quality

### Senior Frontend Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
• Led a team of 3 engineers migrating Amazon Healthcare pharmacy pages (1M+ daily visitors) from a legacy templating system to React/TypeScript — reducing deployment lead time by ~70%
• Implemented fault-tolerant UI patterns — fallback states, retry logic, and degraded-mode rendering — hardening resilience across pharmacy pages serving 1M+ daily visitors
• Established Jest, React Testing Library, and Cypress E2E suites — increasing test coverage from near-zero to 80%+ across critical pharmacy flows

### Web Developer @ Zoom
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area
• Engineered an internal analytics dashboard from concept to production in under 3 months — interactive charts, drag-and-drop layouts, and dynamic filtering giving 50+ stakeholders real-time KPI visibility for the first time

### Full Stack Engineer @ Atlassian
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area
• Developed server-rendered React features for Atlassian's support portal — search, article page trees, and i18n — improving SEO discoverability for millions of users across Confluence, Jira, Trello, and Bitbucket
• Built custom Contentful CMS plugins with dynamic field rendering and smart link resolution, reducing average content authoring time by ~40% for a team of 10+ editors — enabling faster campaign turnaround

### Front-end Developer @ General Motors
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area
• Built end-to-end e-commerce UI across 3 GM brands (Chevrolet, GMC, Cadillac) — product listing, PDP, and checkout flows with dynamic pricing, vehicle fitment filtering, and cart integration — supporting thousands of SKUs


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Information Technology
Brigham Young University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/phillipshim
- GitHub: https://github.com/shimphillip
- Portfolio: https://dev.to/shimphillip

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Last updated: 2026-04-17